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Book Review: “Impossible Owls” — Beauty on the Margins

Brian Phillips uses the essay form to map the limits of America’s cultural-historical imagination, from our highest achievements to our kitschiest expressions of who we think we are, and who we think everyone else is.

By: Lucas Spiro Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Brian Phillips, essays, FSG Original, Impossible Owls, Lucas Spiro, non-fiction, travel writing

Book Review: A Well-Rounded Look at Napoleon the Man and the Myth

Andrew Roberts has succeeded in a single volume in reconciling the two faces of this historical colossus.

By: Thomas Filbin Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Andrew Roberts, biography, European history, history, Napoleon Bonaparte, Napoleon: A Life, non-fiction, Thomas Filbin, War

Book Review: Memoir as Love Letter — “Into the Garden with Charles”

Into the Garden with Charles reads like a great love letter: beautifully written, full of feeling, a document of an intimate connection that never lost its wonder for the author.

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: Clyde Phillip Wachsberger, Culture Vulture, garden, gardening, Into the Garden with Charles, memoir, non-fiction

Fuse Book Review: Losing it — Whining Against the Dying of the Light

Losing It” explores growing old through an assemblage of tales and lessons drawn from works of the past—the Icelandic Sagas, the classics, the Bible, the Torah—to which the author adds a plenitude of his own dicta and pensées, slinging the whole contraption together on a webbing of extrapolation and free association.

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: Losing It, non-fiction, Old Age, William Ian Miller

Book Review: ‘Making Toast’

Although the memoir has been called luminous, wise, humble, piercing, and all sorts of other laudatory adjectives, it is, nevertheless, not an easy book to read because you keep wondering how you would manage in this situation. Making Toast by Roger Rosenblatt, Ecco Press, 166 pages, $21.00 Reviewed by Roberta Silman At the end of […]

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: Making Toast, memoir, non-fiction, Roberta Silman, Roger Rosenblatt, The New Yorker

Book Review: Digging Mud, Sweat, and Gears

Joe Kurmaskie’s latest book, Mud, Sweat, and Gears, is funny, genuine, and inspiring. And it isn’t just a memoir about the Kurmaskie family’s epic bike trip across Canada one summer; it’s about the mud, sweat, and gears that keep a family together. Mud, Sweat, and Gears: A Rowdy Family Bike Adventure Across Canada on Seven […]

By: Thomas Samph Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: Bike Adventure, Blood Sweat Gears, Canada, Joe Kurmaskie, non-fiction, Tom samph

Critical Condition: The Book Review Blues

ArtsFuse editor Bill Marx speaks with Gail Pool, the author of Faint Praise: The Plight of Book Reviewing in America, about the slow decline of literary criticism in the United States.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Podcast Tagged: book-reviewing, book-reviews, Books, faint-praise:-the-plight-of-book-reviewing-in-America, fiction, Gail-Pool, non-fiction, Podcast

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